POWERFIT
A year-round, intense all-around conditioning class that uses weights, cardio movements and plyometrics to super charge your workout to the next level. The class is lead by two of our top trainers Joe "Sport" Talbert, Jennifer Schumm and Sara Talbert.
Can you meet the challenge and last 60 minutes in PowerFit?
COST: $30 per class/Additional cost for non-members
CLASS SCHEDULE:
Tuesdays: 11:00am - 12:00pm
Fridays: 7:00am - 8:00pm / 11:00am - 12:00pm
What is Power Fit?
The purpose of Power Fit is to keep you moving by only allowing you to take minimal breaks between exercises. Whatever you do, don't stop moving!
This workout is different from other programs you may have followed. For example, it differs from supersets or compound sets, which target one or two specific muscles and work with the fatigue factor of those particular muscles to increase the intensity of your workout. Power Fit, on the other hand, works because it causes you to keep pushing your body aerobically, while still challenging your strength.
Power Fit has three highly trained and educated instructors on staff. With each class you get on or two instructors motivating you to reach your next fitness level. The music is great, keeping you entertained and motivated. At the end of class you are challenged with specific core work followed with a cool down of a brief stretching routine.
The common misconception
If you're like many men and women, you probably think that circuit training is something someone does with measly five-pound dumbbells. This is probably because you associate no rest periods with light weights, and if you are trying to increase your strength, you likely think you need to be lifting as much weight as possible.
However, muscle responds to the total tension produced. If you use lighter weights, but are able to get in more sets during a certain period of time, you will produce the same - if not more - total tension and will stimulate your muscles to grow.
The benefits
Power Fit allows you to work your aerobic system while simultaneously working on your strength. Since you are constantly progressing through the workout, you will keep your heart rate up, therefore reaping the same benefits as someone who logs endless miles on the treadmill. You, however, will be constantly stimulating your mind, which will help keep boredom at bay. Since you will move through this workout quickly, you won't have to spend long hours in the gym, and you will be able to spend your time doing the things that you never seemed to have time for when you were making the gym your second home.
The sample workout
Power Fit consists of fifteen different exercise stations to be performed a total of three times. Perform as many reps of each exercise for 45 seconds that you can before moving on to the next station with a 15 second transition period. Once you have completed all 15 of the exercises, start the sequence over again.
The stations do change from time to time, but here is a sample of the class format:
1) step ups (right leg)
2) step ups (left leg)
4) bike station
5) mountain climbers
6) walking lunges
7) one arm row (right arm)
8) one arm row (left arm)
9) dips
10) cable rotation
11) lateral raises
12) suats
13) split squat jumps
14) push ups
15) bike station
Core work followed with stretching.
A final note
This workout is designed to target all of the muscles in your body. The format is designed to keep your body balanced and ensure you are strengthening all the muscle groups. This circuit is a great thing to include in your workout when you are feeling like you are reaching a plateau or you're just ready to try something new to kick-start your metabolism and kick your workout up a notch.
Since it is quite intense, only perform it twice a week and be sure to take at least one day off in between. To progress and keep stimulating your body, our instructors incorporate different versions of each exercise, such as one-hand pushups or clap pushups, and turned-out squats or squat jumps.
Hopefully, by round three of this program, you will be hooked on Power Fit. Be prepared to see changes for the better in your body quickly!
Power Fit Instructors:
Combined, our instructors bring 30 years of teaching experience to the class.
Joe Talbert ATC, CSCS: 303.770.2582 x379
joseft@GreenwoodATC.com
B.A. in Kinesiology
NASM Certified Personal Trainer
Co-founder of Power Fitness. Joe specializes in working with athletes for sports conditioning in football, basketball, and skiing. He has been working at GATC since 1999. "Hard work is the only way to really see results."
Sara Talbert: 303.770.2582 x375
sarat@GreenwoodATC.com
Director of Pilates
Certified Pilates Instructor, Peak Pilates
Peak Pilates Teacher Trainer
Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist, NSCA
Spinning Certified
B.A. Kinesiology - CU Boulder
Jenifer Schum: 303.770.2582 x285
jennifers@GreenwodATC.com
B.S. in Biology and Kinesiology
NASM and ACE Certified Personal Trainer
NASM Performance Enhancement and NASM Corrective Exercise Specialist
ACE-certified Lifestyle and Weight Management Consultant
Miss Figure Colorado 2005
Training since 1995, 10 years plus ballet, teaching aerobics, Tae Bo and weight training. Her own passion for fitness is an inspiration to her clients and helps them learn how to love the journey not the destination. "Being able to teach my clients how to obtain their goals and maintain them for life is the true goal of my training".
